Chart Downloader (Plugin Included in Program download)
Download, install and keep up to date the navigational charts provided by various free governmental sources worldwide directly from within OpenCPN's Toolbox. Supports both the raster and vector charts for the US waters provided by the NOAA, official raster navigational charts published by Argentina, Brasil and New Zealand (covering also huge areas of the Pacific ocean) as well as electronic charts of the inland waterways of the USA and more than a dozen European Union countries.
S63 Vector Charts (obsolete) (o-charts)
A plugin that makes it possible to display standard commercial charts.
This plugin has a totally different display format and is integrated in the main program.
See O-Charts S-63 Vector charts for OpenCPN which has a link to VAR Chartworld for ENC charts.
o-charts (o-charts)
Coming soon
oeSENC Charts (obsolete) (o-charts)
A Plugin for Vector charts licensed from official bodies for OpenCPN, especially for waters outside of the US. This is an encrypted format with its own plug-in, the oeSENC plug-in. Special and exclusive for OCPN. Derived from S-57, but already in an easy to digest format for OCPN (ocpn encrypted SENC). These charts are distributed through o-charts at very competitive prices for vector charts of this quality. Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the British Isles, France, Iceland, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Crotia, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Italy, Denmark, Australia or Canada are available. Portugal shall be added.
Just visit www.o-charts.org to get an overview about the actual coverage.
oeRNC Charts (obsolete) (o-charts)
The plug-in for oeRNC give access to raster charts are sourced from editors covering sailing regions where vector charts are not available or are lower quality than the alternative raster sources.
Leaving it up to the sailor to decide which chart set suites his requirements. We want to serve sailors preferring raster over vector as well.
oeRNC charts are licensed and encrypted for OpenCPN.
The first sets are covering the Bahamas (Explorer Charts), The Eastern Caribbean, Adriatic&Ionean Sea and The Aegean& Eastern med. The latter three are Imray charts. For information about the latest coverage visit www.o-charts.org
Fugawi Charts
Fugawi.com is a portal offering raster charts from different editors in a common uniform format.
Chart sets from sources like for example NV, Delius-Klasing, Solteknik, BlueLatitude or Explorer Charts and others are found here under one roof.
The FugawiChart-PlugIn gives access to these charts.
Fugawi has stopped licensing charts from December 1st, 2018 on and will maintain support until November, 2019.
NV Charts
The NVC charts are purchased only from the German publisher NV Verlag This plugin runs NVC Charts.
BSB4 Charts
A plugin which makes it possible to use MAPTEC encrypted BSB4 charts for which encryption certificates have been purchased and registered on the computer running OpenCPN.
vfKaps -VentureFather Satellite Kap Charts
A plugin which makes it easy to create google earth, bing and nokia kap files. In some areas of the world a satellite chart is more accurate than even the official chart. This plugin allows satellite charts from Google, Bing or Nokia to be downloaded via the VentureFarther server.
RotationCtrl
Controls to rotate the charts in various ways. North up, South up, Course up, Heading up, Route up, Wind up, Tilt down, Tilt up. Rotate CCW, Rotate CW.
Chartscale
Slider to change the chartscale. Useful utility.
Object Search
Allows search of named objects on S-57 and CM93 vector charts.
Projections
Utility to project the charts in many alternative projections configured by the user. Right-click shows “Projections” with user selection for Mercator, Orthographic, Polar, Stereographic, Genomonic, ane Equirectangular. These projections may be useful for a more accurate interpretation of navigational data. Mercator is especially skewed at high lattitudes. Requires opengl.
VisitMyHarbor
Has charts for UK, Ireland, Near Contenant, Iberia. VisitmyHarbor
Other Sources
See OpenCPN User Manual for other Chart Sources.